A Bed for Papa Bear

Nothing like an upcoming visit from my parents to get us in gear and figure out a guest bedroom situation. Greg conveniently uses one of our open rooms as his "guitar studio" so the missing bed and furniture are fine by him, but not by me. As for our other bedroom, in addition to missing furniture, its missing carpet and closet doors at the time being.

With a lot on the agenda this summer we've got a tight budget and timeline to get this guest bedroom in shape. I was scoping out bed options to see what it will run us and came across this 10 inch memory foam mattress at Amazon.

It has great reviews, free shipping and at $345 for a queen the price is right. How funny is it that it comes squished into a little tiny box? I was originally looking at the 12 inch version--thicker is better right?-- wrong! Thanks to the reviews a number of people called out that not only is the 10 inch model cheaper, it also has an extra half inch of memory foam. We've never had a memory foam bed, but love our memory foam pillows from Costco. What do you think, anyone out there have a memory foam mattress?

My one concern is that it looks like you would either need a box spring or a platform bed, both of which would run that price tag right up. I've been watching Craigslist but haven't seen anything I'm crazy about, and I'm now at the point where getting a bed at Ikea doesn't do it for me.

Surfing around today I wound up looking over Ana White's bed making plans. Isn't this bed goregous? Very simple with classic lines. I can't take my mind off it!! The plans seem pretty simple, and I'm wondering if it a challenge the suburbanista can handle. I showed Greg and he of course said "no way." How's that for a challenge?

We don't have a kreg jig- I'm hoping its not a deal-breaker. I think we can work around that thought... just a bit more pre-drilling.  I did a rough cost check with Greg and he thought we could get all the materials for $60-$70- not to bad for a fabulous queen sized bed.

Hmmmmm.....